# New chief executive at the Army Benevolent Fund

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/12/16/new-chief-executive-army-benevolent-fund/
- Published: 2003-12-16T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Major General Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter KCVO, OBE has been appointed as the new Controller
of the Fund at the Army Benevolent Fund (ABF), the Army’s national charity.**

Sir Evelyn has served for 37 years in the Army and comes from a long family of soldiers.
His last job in the Army was The Major General Commanding the Household Division,
where he was involved with planning many national ceremonies including the Queen
Mother’s 100th birthday celebrations. This experience should prove very useful, 
particularly during the Fund’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2004.

Sir Evelyn said: “Next year we are planning a spectacular event at the Royal Military
Academy in Sandhurst in July. We’ve called it ‘Music on Fire’ and it will be the
biggest electronically choreographed display of fireworks and projections since 
the Queen’s Golden Jubilee celebrations at Buckingham Palace.”

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## Comments

### By: alan

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/12/16/new-chief-executive-army-benevolent-fund/#comment-2786
- Published: 2015-05-24T12:32:00+01:00

just what conflicts did he serve in?

### By: HowardLake

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/12/16/new-chief-executive-army-benevolent-fund/#comment-2787
- Published: 2015-05-24T19:34:00+01:00

I don’t know. Was that relevant to his appointment at ABF? If so, how?
 And what
would you define as ‘serve in’? Engage in frontline combat himself or command troops
in combat, but away from the front lines? And if he didn’t serve in a conflict, 
would that be a reflection on him, or the then policies of the UK government, or
the distribution of military units by those in senior positions than his?

### By: alan

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/12/16/new-chief-executive-army-benevolent-fund/#comment-2788
- Published: 2015-05-25T07:17:00+01:00

why the defensive stand

### By: HowardLake

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/12/16/new-chief-executive-army-benevolent-fund/#comment-2789
- Published: 2015-05-25T09:44:00+01:00

Because, on this site for professional charity fundraisers, your question looked
peculiar.
 Putting aside the ‘just what conflicts’ rather than simply “which conflicts”,
which suggests you were trying to make a point, I was curious, on this site for 
professional fundraisers, why this man’s conflict experience would be relevant to
his appointment at a charity? No defence on my part – I don’t know the man. Just
curiosity about your question and why you asked it.